This is like when people see the Virgin Mary in their breakfast toast but in this case it's Satan in the AI. Saying this jokingly but in the deeply uncomfortable way that I might joke about ouji boards tbh.
I don't know, guys. The president started a war with no plan and crashed the world economy, is building immense monuments to himself, is making billions off the presidency, and is now attacking the Pope while presenting himself as Jesus. Maybe the political class should abandon the inside voice.
it's molting season for RFK Jr
What is obvious to me is that a lot of people deeply care about their neighbors and this country.
They didn't think we would. We do.
Genuinely convinced Noem has no capacity for empathy. I don't think she'll ever realize how evil her actions are, which is part of what makes them so vile.
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
They were probably real proud of themselves when they came up with this pivot. Is the punishment summary execution for this, Steve?
This about to activate the NRA account again
Murdering your everyday Average White Man on video is like the one thing that will guaranteed penetrate to the normie non-political majority of this country. Got the Senate Dems united and the NRA correcting fafo takes within literal hours.
I’m completely fed up with elected Representatives saying shit like, “Republicans will tell you behind closed doors that they don’t agree with what ICE is doing”.
Playtime is over. Professional courtesy no longer exists.
Name them, record them, and make it public.
If folks don't know what to do with their rage today, and they have cash, I suggest going to standwithminnesota.com and finding someone who needs help
The lady the news interviewed who said "and that's why I'm showing up, because Mr Rogers would be here too" -- made me cry, man. Inspirational shit from just ordinary people in the worst times, inject that attitude into my veins.
Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
The regime will lie. That's what fascist regimes do.
It will continue to murder people in different ways. That's also what fascist regimes do.
Regular people will continue to refuse and to not cooperate and to fight back in all of the ways we can.
this is why trump is such a fascinating figure and one so emblematic of american life rn. more than anyone else he is motivated entirely by inscrutable slights he received during the first bush administration that all amount to "Nobody agreed that my buildings were the tallest"
when the right gets angry all the gop guys are like "you should be angry. at minorities, which is why we will arrest them all for you and murder some when we get bored"
when left gets angry at this the dnc goes "yeah but the thugs you're mad at want you to be mad, so calm down." gee thanks asshole
"what are we going to do with 20,000 ICE agents if we abolish ice" well to start with I think we should all literally spit on them in public for the rest of their lives
XKCD comic ALL MODERN DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE A PROJECT SOME RANDOM PERSON IN NEBRASKA HAS BEEN THANKLESSLY MAINTAINING SINCE 2003
Evergreen
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
I don’t what to say about a Dem leadership that can be undone by the likes of Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen. Saying they went over Schumer’s head is not the flex people think it is.
these stupid assholes got me leaving angry voicemails for senators at 4:30pm on a sunday. the only thing i want to do at 4:30pm on a sunday is serenely contemplate my evening sandwich
Still working through my thoughts on One Battle After Another, but I think Benicio del Toro’s character is a (cinematic) example of what Ta-Nehisi Coates is talking about lately: you do the work knowing that the hammer might come down, that you can’t control the hammer, and you do the work anyway.
One Battle After Another and Sinners both lay out a formula for cinema success: diverse movies where white nationalists get duffed in the most graphic way possible shot and presented in increasingly baroque high resolution formats.
Far more dangerous than Trump, I think, is how quickly the last eight months have pulled back the curtain on America's elites and shown everyone how venal, how cowardly and how utterly mediocre the foundation of our society has been.
fandom announcements be like:
kinktober event happening!!!! here are our guidelines rule 1) no kinks
Listening to the Top Gun Maverick soundtrack again and wondering when someone will finally write the Top Gun Steve & Bucky fic I yearn for.
Coming back to read a WIP and realizing it's Good, Actually? Are you telling me I have to polish it after all and can't just toss it in the trash heap
He's just like me fr